Paris, Boulogne-sur-Mer [printed]: Chez MM. A. Gaudin et Frère, 1856. First edition. 8vo., 15 pp. Later cloth and marbled boards. Neat library deaccession stamp of S. F. P. (Société Française de Photographie.) Very good. SIGNED by the author on the copyright page. The author presents a new process for obtaining..... More

New York: Office of the Photographic and Fine Art Journal, 1854. First U.S. edition. 12mo., [iv], 67 pp. New calf-backed cloth over boards, with printed paper label on the upper cover. Light chipping to the fore edge of the title page; a few upper tips are creased; very good. A..... More

Paris: Chez les Auteurs, n.d. (1860 - 1862). Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène. First edition. 16mos. 15 original albumen photographic portraits (ca. 3 1/4 x 2 inches) mounted on printed stiff paper mounts (ca. 5 3/4 x 4 1/5 inches). 14 of the portraits are each housed in their original printed paper folder..... More

[Augusta, Maine]: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 18[5]9 by Scofield Leavit in the Supreme Court of Maine, 1859. Broadside, 24.3 x 15.2 cm. Old folds, with tiny marginal tears, wear and creases at the edges. Very good. "The Chrystallotype, or Crystalotype, an old name for photographic..... More

Paris: Arthaud, 1984. First edition. 4to., 111 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w and handcolored photographs. Laid-in is a 4 pp. text and list of plate in both English and Japanese. Slight bump to the upper board tip; else near fine in the color illustrated dust jacket. The work of two..... More

NY: Radtke, Lauckner & Co., ca 1890. Single sheet of thin laid paper 10 3/8 x8 inches, with a copper etching of a rustic cabin on a lake with a sail boat in the background. In holograph on the lower margin is " At Brennan & Davis' Monday & Tuesday..... More

Paris: Gauthiers-Villars & Fils, 1889 - 1906. First editions. Eight volumes, 8vo. Volume 1: 512 pp.; Volume 2: 400 pp.; Volume 3: 407 pp.; Volume 4: 413 pp., with a total of 724 engraved illustrations. Supplement A: 400 pp., 174 engraved illustrations; Supplement B: 424 pp., 221 engraved illustrations; Supplement..... More

Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2010. First edition. 8vo., 73 pp., b&w illustrations, plus 1 CD-ROM. Color illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine, as new. With dogged determination, Roberto A. Ferrari tracked down Daguerre's copy of his original contract with Niépce, which was housed in the..... More

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. First edition. 8vo., 74 pp., plus 2 leaves with 3 plates, 2 of which are in color. Original decorative paper wrappers. Scattered foxing, wrappers creased, slight soil. The title page bears the stamp of the Paris distributor. A good copy. Housed in a new quarter tree calf..... More

London: Dawbarn and Ward, 1895. First English edition. 8vo., (ii), 89 [2] pp., illustrations in text, 6 full-page plates, 12 adverts. Decorative cloth. Moderate soiling to cloth, lower tips rubbed with a slight crease to the rear board. Very good. A complete manual of all manner of photolithographic printing process..... More

Paris: N.-P. Lerebours; Bachelier; London: Claudet, MAI 1842. Third edition. 8vo., 77 pp., large folding plate, [1], [16] catalogue. Quarter morocco and marbled boards with the moderately soiled original printed wrappers bound-in. On pages 7 and 10, a short closed tear at the blank gutter margin has been repaired with..... More

Paris: Au Bureau du Cosmos et Chez Delahaye, 1855. First edition. 8vo., 104 pp. Printed wrappers are slightly edgeworn and show age-toning. Very good or better. Housed in a new quarter cloth and pastepaper clamshell box. Stéphane Geoffray (1827-1895) banker, lawyer and photographer, was the inventor of the waxed paper..... More

(Göteborg): Gumpertska konsthandelns förlag, n.d. (ca. 1865-1870). First edition. Folio, with 12 (7 x 8 1/2 inch) original gold-toned albumen photographs on printed stiff paper mounts (12 1/ 4 x 16 1/2 inches). Calf-backed gilt-stamped and decoratively embossed cloth folder. Lightly faded, worn and rubbed at the edges, else very..... More